East Challow
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view of church exterior
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
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view of font and cover
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INFORMATION
FontID: 05918CHA
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Nicholas
Church Patron Saints: St. Nicholas of Myra
Country Name: England
Location: Oxfordshire, South East
Directions to Site: Located on the A417 just west of Wantage, 25 km SSW of Oxford
Historical Region: formerly Berkshire
Font Location in Church: Inside the church
Century and Period: 12th century, Norman
Cognate Fonts: Little Billing, Stretton Sugwas, Poltimore
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to John Wilkes, of www.allthecotswolds.com, for his photographs of church and font
Font Notes:
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Described in 'Church notes...' (1887) in the context of some "notes [that] were taken between 1835 and 1840": "Font, a plain Norman cylinder". Listed in Tyrrell-Green (1928) as an early mounted baptismal stone font with a girding around it. The font is a crudely rendered plain tub standing on a short base and a round plinth. The wooden cover is octagonal and box-like, with an inscription carved all around; its shape is totally ill-suited to the basin; it has a ridiculous metal top and finial; Victorian? There is no mention of either font or cover in Sherwood & Pevsner (1974).
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone
Font Shape: tub-shaped (cylindrical)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round
Drainage Notes: lead lining
LID INFORMATION
Date: 19th-century?
Material: wood
Apparatus: no
Notes: [cf. FontNotes]
REFERENCES
"Church notes, chiefly in Berks, Wilts, and Oxford, with a few in Somerset and Gloucestershire", 44, Archaeological Journal, 1887, pp. 43-50; 185-193; 291-303; 397-402; p. 185
Tyrrell-Green, E., Baptismal Fonts Classified and Illustrated, London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: The Macmillan Co., 1928